Leflore Co. Rwd #17, OK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Leflore Co. Rwd #17 serves about 498 people through 250 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Le Flore County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK3004048; phone on file: 972-786-2281. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (3.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Leflore Co. Rwd #17 is 19.6 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 19.6 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
Of the 870 Oklahoma systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.81 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Leflore Co. Rwd #17's 3.6 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Oklahoma and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Le Flore County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Leflore Co. Rwd #17. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Leflore Co. Rwd #14 | 9,077 | 0 (not detected) |
| Poteau Pwa | 7,939 | 1.87 ppb |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #2 | 4,700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #18 | 3,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heavener Utility Auth - Psg | 3,000 | 1.07 ppb |
| Spiro | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arkoma | 2,180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spiro East Water Association | 1,817 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leflore Co. Consolidated Rwd #12 | 1,800 | 1.2 ppb |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #1 | 1,758 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hodgen, OK may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Leflore Co. Rwd #17 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.